Jacquetta of Luxembourg

Noble person

1416 – 1472

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Who was Jacquetta of Luxembourg?

Jacquetta of Luxembourg, Countess Rivers was the eldest daughter of Peter I, Count of Saint-Pol, Conversano and Brienne and his wife Margaret de Baux. She was a relatively long-lived figure in the Wars of the Roses. Through her short-lived first marriage to the Duke of Bedford, brother of King Henry V, she was firmly allied to the House of Lancaster. However, following the emphatic Lancastrian defeat at the Battle of Towton she sided closely with the House of York. Three years after the battle and the accession of Edward IV of England, her eldest daughter Elizabeth Woodville married the new king and became queen. Jacquetta bore 14 children and withstood a trial or possibly two at court for witchcraft.

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